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1 Prologue 1 1.1 Thermodynamics - The theory of heat and work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Organization of the thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Classical systems far from equilibrium 5 2.1 Entropy production in the linear regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Microscopic dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.1 Langevin equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.2 Fokker-Planck equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3 Generalizations of the second law arbitrarily far from equilibrium . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3.1 Jarzynski’s work relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.3.2 Crooks’ fluctuation theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3.3 Generalization to arbitrary initial states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 Dynamical properties of nonequilibrium quantum systems 21 3.1 Geometric approach to isolated quantum syst

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Author

Sebastian Deffner

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction